Monday, November 10, 2003

THE BANALITY OF EVIL: I had professors that used that term a lot. It's useful, but a bit vague and accommodating. For my own comfort, back then, I distilled it down to the price of liberty being eternal vigilence... the certainty that all that must happen for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing, etc. Neutered liberal horseshit, really, if you can't tell your principles from your testicles.

On that note, what with the country waking up to the harsh light of the morning after its wild night in Baghdad, I think we need to confront a further phenomenon, the Evil of Banality. The Evil of Banality may be approxmated for the purpose of most computations as the difference between Annie Lennox and Celine Dion.

Knowing is half the battle.

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